Four people, who recently returned from the UK, tested positive for Covid-19, officials in Peshawar said on Friday, though the national health services ministry insisted that the new variant of the coronavirus which surfaced in Britain earlier this month had not been detected in Pakistan, so far.

The local authorities, in a bid to keep check on the new strain found in Britain, traced 66 of the 102 passengers, who returned to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa during the last one week on the instructions of the federal government.

The District Health Officer (DHO) Peshawar Dr Azmatullah said they traced 51 of the returning passengers, while 32 were tested for the coronavirus. He added that 19 results had been received, of whom, four were positive and eight negative. The remaining results were awaited, he said.

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